http://sheleta.gather.com Recent Articles on Gather by Savo Heleta en-us Copyright Gather Inc 2009 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 09:19:19 GMT 2010-01-01T09:19:19Z en-us Copyright Gather Inc 2009 http://www.gather.com/images/header/logo_gather.gif http://www.gather.com/ http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977908378 Over the next two years, and especially on the day when they cast their vote during the 2011 referendum on self-determination, the people of South Sudan need to remember the past when deciding . . . Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:24:10 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977908378 Savo Heleta 2009-11-19T13:24:10Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977838231 Greetings from Juba and South Sudan! I arrived in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, on Saturday, October 3, and will stay here for seven days. Since March 2009, I'm working on South Sudan Executive . . . Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:42:31 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977838231 Savo Heleta 2009-10-04T18:42:31Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977829403 Richard Haass, US Foreign Policy expert and the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, says the war in Afghanistan is no longer a war of necessity but rather a war of choice. In an interview . . . Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:03:25 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977829403 Savo Heleta 2009-09-28T17:03:25Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977810574 Creation , a British film about Charles Darwin, has failed to find a US distributor because "his theory of evolution is too controversial for American audiences." The British Telegraph writes that . . . Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:17:38 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977810574 Savo Heleta 2009-09-13T10:17:38Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977806791 When Hamas leaders or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad deny the Holocaust, this is portrayed as "evil" talk in the US and Western media. But when the Harvard University newspaper publishes an ad denying the Holocaust, . . . Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:58:34 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977806791 Savo Heleta 2009-09-10T06:58:34Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977805848 What about those famous and probably fake American polls about Iraqis claiming they support the US invasion and occupation? Muntazer al-Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at George Bush . . . Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:13:13 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977805848 Savo Heleta 2009-09-09T17:13:13Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977805225 Driving around Baghdad, Blackwater mercenaries competed who can hit an Iraqi civilian with a water bottle or smash a windshield or a window. Some fired their weapons indiscriminately in unprovoked and . . . Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:37:25 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977805225 Savo Heleta 2009-09-09T06:37:25Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977803921 As the police and media report in Jingdezhen, China, a customer at a local Walmart was allegedly beaten to death by the store employees after suspecting her of stealing. The France 24 reports that . . . Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:36:36 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977803921 Savo Heleta 2009-09-08T08:36:36Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977803766 Speaking at a press conference in Egypt, Javier Solana , the European Union foreign policy chief, said that he does not support independence for South Sudan. As agreed in the 2005 Comprehensive Peace . . . Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:10:17 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977803766 Savo Heleta 2009-09-08T06:10:17Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977803076 Politicians will do anything to manipulate the public for political ends! As the British Telegraph writes , twenty short people were ordered to stand behind the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy,  . . . Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:10:54 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977803076 Savo Heleta 2009-09-07T16:10:54Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977803058 The "evidence" that Iranian election were stolen was the fact that the results were released too quickly. This was enough for Western politicians and media to condemn the Iranian regime and cause rage . . . Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:48:53 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977803058 Savo Heleta 2009-09-07T15:48:53Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977802027 In an interview with World Net Daily on August 15, Michele Bachmann, Republican member of House of Representatives from Minnesota, was asked whether she would ever run for US president. "If I felt . . . Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:31:09 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977802027 Savo Heleta 2009-09-06T16:31:09Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977800893 The readers of Ship of Fools , a British "magazine of Christian unrest," have debated for some time about the worst Bible verses that seem to approve brutality, murder, slavery, genocide, and sexism. . . . Sat, 05 Sep 2009 07:12:19 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977800893 Savo Heleta 2009-09-05T07:12:19Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977799898 67 people have died so far of shock or committed suicide in India after a widely popular politician, Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, the chief minister in the Andhra Pradesh state, was killed in a chopper crash . . . Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:47:01 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977799898 Savo Heleta 2009-09-04T12:47:01Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977799737 The government of Canada will challenge the ruling by the Canadian immigration board panel that granted refugee status to a white man from South Africa who claimed persecution from black South . . . Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:07:25 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977799737 Savo Heleta 2009-09-04T09:07:25Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977798356 Sonya Matthews and her two-year-old daughter Paige were shopping at a local Walmart in Stone Mountain, Georgia. Paige wasn't in good mood so she cried. Roger Stephens, 61, was shopping at the same . . . Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:59:06 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977798356 Savo Heleta 2009-09-03T08:59:06Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977798308 To gain promotions or assignment to preferable shifts, US embassy guards in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, have to participate in drunken naked pool parties and perform public sex acts, according . . . Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:05:42 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977798308 Savo Heleta 2009-09-03T08:05:42Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977798276 Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), a medical ethics watchdog, claim that the CIA physicians and psychologists performed unlawful medical experiments on terror suspects at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, Bagram, . . . Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:03:05 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977798276 Savo Heleta 2009-09-03T07:03:05Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977798227 You think you heard it all? When Steve Valdez went to Bank of America in downtown Tampa to cash his check, a bank teller insisted he provides a proof of identity. After providing two forms of photo . . . Thu, 03 Sep 2009 05:55:49 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977798227 Savo Heleta 2009-09-03T05:55:49Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977796873 As a white person living in South Africa for a number of years, I find the recent decision by the Canadian immigration board panel to grant Brandon Huntley, a white South African man, refugee status due . . . Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:49:38 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977796873 Savo Heleta 2009-09-02T08:49:38Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977795490 "It’s not everywhere that you can shop for milk at 10 am next to a 400lb mother of 6 wearing a pink tube top, leopard tights, and hooker heels." Probably only at Walmart! Peopleofwalmart.com . . . Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:13:05 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977795490 Savo Heleta 2009-09-01T09:13:05Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977794043 John McCain, appearing on CBS Face the Nation , said the use of prisoner torture and abuse by the Bush administration "violated international law, didn't work, and actually helped al Qaeda recruit additional . . . Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:53:23 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977794043 Savo Heleta 2009-08-31T06:53:23Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977794023 Tom Ridge, former US Secretary of Homeland Security , has written in his new book that he was pressured by then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Attorney General John Ashcroft to "raise the . . . Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:12:16 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977794023 Savo Heleta 2009-08-31T06:12:16Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977791529 Abdullah Abdullah, the main challenger to Hamid Karzai, says the shocking "state-engineered" election fraud in Afghanistan threatens to remove all legitimacy from the government, writes the British Telegraph. . . . Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:56:15 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977791529 Savo Heleta 2009-08-28T18:56:15Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977789924 U.S. Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins, Republican from Kansas, "told a recent gathering in northeast Kansas that the Republican Party is looking for a 'great white hope' to help stop the political agenda . . . Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:58:47 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977789924 Savo Heleta 2009-08-27T14:58:47Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977789881 "Those who are masters of the internet are heroes. Those who are controlled by the internet are slaves." The above is a slogan on the wall of a Chinese boot camp for internet addicts. According . . . Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:22:12 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977789881 Savo Heleta 2009-08-27T14:22:12Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977789679 Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazer , Iran's most senior dissident cleric, says Iranian regime under Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and president Ahmadinejad is "a dictatorship in the name of Islam." Montazer . . . Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:21:15 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977789679 Savo Heleta 2009-08-27T10:21:15Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977789666 What happened on August 27 in Pretoria , the capital of South Africa, was not a real military coup, even though it did look like it. About 2,000 soldiers from South African National Defence Forces . . . Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:00:15 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977789666 Savo Heleta 2009-08-27T10:00:15Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977788657 Black people on ads are not good for some markets, according to Microsoft. A photo of an Asian man, a black man, and a white woman appeared on Microsoft's US website as a part of a campaign that . . . Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:13:11 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977788657 Savo Heleta 2009-08-26T15:13:11Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977788222 The National Security Archive at the George Washington University has announced the publication of the Torture Archive. This comprehensive digital archive has "more than 83,000 pages of primary source . . . Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:07:24 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977788222 Savo Heleta 2009-08-26T07:07:24Z